Publishers / nypost.com
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Two different webs
4 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://nypost.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
nypost.com scores 63 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 30 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 4 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 1 of 8 training crawlers, 1 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 10 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 7 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 3 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- New York Post – Breaking News, Top Headlines, Photos & Videos
- H1
- none
- Words
- 4,184
- Scripts
- 82 tags · 99 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large
- Canonical
- https://nypost.com/
- Server
- nginx
Machine
- robots.txt
- 66 groups · 36 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium10 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · ClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · Claude-SearchBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot) · Claude-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Applebot-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) · Meta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2002412 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 2002477 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowed | 2002308 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 2002410 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002492 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002217 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002444 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002354 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002433 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002331 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2002368 ms | 4,184 | visible HTTP 200, 4184 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002456 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002341 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002378 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002432 ms | 4,184 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot) |
Snapshot
Measured 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC from a residential connection. Sites change their rules often, and sites that verify crawler IPs answer differently to different networks. Run a live comparison to see what nypost.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.